Music of Swiss composer Marcel Wahlich, performed by the Berumünster Radio Symphony on this broadcast for Swiss Radio on March 10, 1964 Marcel Wahlich was born in Zurich’s old town, the son of a well-known wind instrument repairer. There he grew up in a musically passionate family (his father
– NBC Radio – Life And The World – Chicago – Frank Lloyd Wright – Carl Sandberg -Oct. 30, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – I ran across this interview with Poet Carl Sandberg and Architect Frank Lloyd Wright giving their impressions of living in Chicago from October of
The George Coleman Octet this weekend – live from The Village Gate on April 28, 1975. 2025 marks George Coleman’s 90th year – and what else do you do when you turn 90? You keep gigging and recording. This gig puts George Coleman in his 40th year and it
She thought you were wonderful. You thought she was nuts. You had a brain – you never used it. All the important parts froze. Senior year – September – getting to that age where you look at things different – imagine things. See possibilities. Unless you’re you. Ask anybody –
– The Joe Cocker Show – live at The Old Waldorf, San Francisco – October 1978 – KSAN – Joe Cocker first come into international prominence via his appearance at Woodstock in 1969, and later with the Mad Dog’s And Englishmen Tour which did wonders for a lot of
Ending up the week in Madrid with another set from La Radio Encendida Festival in March of this year. Tonight it’s Mohama Saz, a four piece group who, like so much of what’s been going on of late; mashing up styles and genres. This time it works. Mohama Saz
Even early in 1963, before the assassination of President Kennedy, years before the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and decades before the events at Sandy Hook, the concern that America was no longer a nation of innocence – that we were losing our moral center, that we were drifting
– June 27, 1947 – ABC Radio Headline Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 27, 1947 – a day of diplomacy and discussion. The Paris Peace Conference took center stage on this day. Despite 100 degree temperatures in Paris, the formally dressed, and miserably uncomfortable delegates filed
The Flaming Lips – live at Phoenix Festival 1996 – BBC 6 Music – The Flaming Lips to end the week, enthusiastically deemed by Q Magazine as one of “the 50 bands you need to see before you die”. And they say that without one scintilla of bullshit. The Flaming
Taking a brief detour to Paris tonight for a set by Hoshi, recorded for RTL2 Private Private Concert series on January 27, 2022. Hoshi, whose real name is Mathilde Gerner adopted the name mostly out of love for Japanese culture – initially she went by Hoshi Hideko but dropped it
